SentinelOne
Cybersecurity
StaffSoftwareEngineer(Python)
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“Staff Software Engineer (Python) at SentinelOne. Skills: Python backend, Microservices, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL. Design backend services in Python. Build backend services in Python”
Industry & Context.
Problem-solvers; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years backend engineering, Python production microservices, Flask, SQLAlchemy, gevent, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, PostgreSQL schema design, PostgreSQL query optimization, Alembic migrations, gRPC, REST APIs, OpenTelemetry, Grafana dashboards
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus
What You'll Do.
Design backend services in Python
Build backend services in Python
Maintain backend services in Python
Ensure operational correctness
Ensure upgrade safety
Maintain Docker images
Ensure services start correctly
Maintain backwards-compatibility
Work with database layer
Write Alembic migrations
Handle schema evolution
Keep query performance healthy
Drive observability improvements
Instrument services with OpenTelemetry
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams
Full Job Description
Our Purpose At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here. About Us SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters. Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity. What Are We Looking For? We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes. As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Self-Hosted team, you will be tasked with building and maintaining the backend services that power SentinelOne's on-premises deployments. You will work across a Python-based microservices platform, ensuring that enterprise customers can deploy, operate, and upgrade SentinelOne in air-gapped and restricte
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